Burgundy was the winiest wine, the central, essential, and typical wine, the soul and greatest common measure of all the kindly wines of the earth.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them.

If the existentialists are right, that life is meaningless, and if we acknowledge that, we are better equipped to find pleasure in small things.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

I always like to see if the art across the street is better than mine.

I'm not too bothered about what category my music goes in and there's no point in limiting in who you can reach, but I want it to be respected.

He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.

Every book should have a romance.

I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.

I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.

We can see the same spirit in everybody only when we know we are that spirit, Atman or Self. Only a person who has understood his own Self can see that Self in everybody.